The Iron Dragon's Mother
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- $279.00
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- $279.00
Descripción editorial
A 2020 LOCUS AWARD FINALIST AND KIRKUS BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY OF 2019
Award-winning author Michael Swanwick returns to the gritty, post-industrial faerie world of his New York Times Notable Book The Iron Dragon’s Daughter with the standalone adventure fantasy The Iron Dragon’s Mother.
Caitlin of House Sans Merci is the young half-human pilot of a sentient mechanical dragon. Returning from her first soul-stealing raid, she discovers an unwanted hitchhiker.
When Caitlin is framed for the murder of her brother, to save herself she must disappear into Industrialized Faerie, looking for the one person who can clear her.
Unfortunately, the stakes are higher than she knows. Her deeds will change her world forever.
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Traveling through a vast, dark faerie world, Swanwick's gripping sequel to 1993's The Iron Dragon's Daughter poetically tells the tale of a dragon pilot who's running from accusations of crimes she didn't commit. Shortly after Caitlin's father dies and she completes her first piloting mission, Caitlin is framed for multiple crimes, including the murder of her brother whom she believes is still alive. With the help of Helen, a woman she doesn't know who has become a hitchhiker in her mind, she escapes to find her brother and prove her innocence. Journeying through the lands and cities of faerie, Caitlin becomes Cat, making friends who help her discover the magic items she needs and important truths about herself. Changeling women are used as breeders for fae men, fae women are second-class citizens, and all the half-human pilots are persecuted for not remaining virgins Cat's fellow female pilots viciously attack her before others accuse them in turn but Cat and the strong women she befriends seem designed to disprove the sexist assumptions that underpin faerie culture. This epic is full of carefully crafted lands, characters, and creatures, and readers will savor each page.
